Can you explain what happened here? Robbery?

[Dean_Razorback]

Leandro Esperante vs Paulus Ambunda, this is from august first for the IBO super bantamweight belt, Ambunda won by split desicion after almost being KO'd in the second by Esperante.

Did the referee start to count again?

[Dean_Razorback]

i watch it over and over again and i don't get it, i mean, it looks like ambunda takes a knee to get a second count, but the referee never gives him the pass from the first time, he just starts to count again from 8

[El-blanco]

That was weird, did he call the fight or did the round end? The guy couldn't continue anyway.

[Dean_Razorback]

That was weird, did he call the fight or did the round end? The guy couldn't continue anyway.

no, ambunda actually won by split decision, should have added that to the OP

[bigjavi973]

WTF!!???

once he went back down it was supposed to be fight over right?

[El-blanco]

no, ambunda actually won by split decision, should have added that to the OP

That's ridiculous, fight should have been called after he went back down.

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

The thing that amazes me most is that the commentators don't react to it at all. The crowd doesn't seem to either. Crazy stuff.

[FeFist]

It doesn't make sense. I could understand if the referee told them to fight and he took another knee but it looks as though he collapsed during the first knock down. The referee didn't give a full 10 count the second time around either; however he did look as though he knew he fucked things up.

Pretty sick counter though.

[Dean_Razorback]

esperante and his people sent a complain to the IBO who requested the video to evaluate the situation. that's the only video around the web, the fight was in namibia. the channel that aired the fight said they will send the video if they pay them 30 k wich the IBO refused to do.

[RetroSpeed05]

Ref had $$$$ on Ambunda, couldn't let him go out like that.